SACPA/BSA Harmful behaviour risk assessments

• Date: April 30, 2025
• Time: 10:30 – 15:30
• Cost: BSA/SACPA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
• Audience: All safeguarding practitioners and leaders working with children and young people
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline:

Settings have been required to complete risk assessments for many years, often for events or school trips. They have recently been encouraged to take a risk assessment view in many other areas. 

This seminar will look at taking a risk assessed approach to all forms of harmful behaviour in young people. It will look at this both from an individual and a whole-setting perspective. We will examine the range of harmful behaviours present in settings today and look at how to identify and respond to them. We will do this with reference to the latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education and Ofsted’s review of sexual abuse in schools. 

The seminar will look at how to best respond when an individual case of harmful behaviour has been identified. It will also look at how settings can proactively risk assess and mitigate those risks for a range of likely harmful behaviours. 

Training topics will include:

• Identifying the range of harmful behaviours present in settings, including harmful sexual behaviours. 
• Diversity, vulnerability and disproportionality: what we know from cohorts of harmers and harmed children & young people 
• Best practice in assessment, safety planning, intervention and moving on 
• Risk assessment for whole settings. How to mitigate risk. 

Learning outcomes:

• Delegates will have the most recent updates from evidence and practice to support their assessment and management of harmful behaviours 
• Delegates will have information to identify harmful sexual behaviour and respond in proportionate ways 
• Delegates will unpick why children and you people with additional needs and vulnerabilities are over-represented in those engaging in, or affected by harmful behaviour 
• Delegates will be able to make a risk assessment when an incident of harmful behaviour has occurred. 
• Delegates will be able to consider a range of harmful behaviours and produce a risk assessment for their setting to mitigate these. 

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Speakers:

Claire Dan, Director of Safeguarding BSA Group and Director, Sacpa

Claire is Director of Safeguarding and Director, Sacpa and leads on the provision of safeguarding advice and support to members and the development and delivery of CPD and safeguarding consultancy services. Claire is a safeguarding specialist and leader with a background in education welfare, youth justice, and early help contexts which have involved a strong focus on diverse and collaborative partnerships, professional development and supervision of front-line safeguarding colleagues, and leading multi-disciplinary teams and projects. Between 2006 and 2013 Claire was involved with Luton Safeguarding Children Board as a lead multi-agency safeguarding trainer, developing and delivering single and multi-agency safeguarding training, and since 2013 has delivered pieces of bespoke consultancy work, and providing a range of safeguarding consultancy on a freelance basis.

David Walker, Director, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

David is the BSA Director and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.